Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.